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Video Game Leaders to Help Consumers Make Informed Choices About Their Loot Box Purchases

Video Game Leaders to Help Consumers Make Informed Choices About Their Loot Box Purchases

Gaming Aug 7,2019 0

Several video game industry leaders are announcing new initiatives to help consumers make informed choices about their purchases, including loot boxes.

The major console makers – Sony Interactive Entertainment, Microsoft and Nintendo, are committing to new platform policies that will require paid loot boxes in games developed for their platforms to disclose information on the relative rarity or probability of obtaining randomized virtual items. These required disclosures will also apply to game updates, if the update adds new loot box features. The precise timing of this disclosure requirement is still being worked out, but the console makers are targeting 2020 for the implementation of the policy.

In addition, several of Entertainment Software Association's (ESA) publisher members already disclose the relative rarity or probability of obtaining in-game virtual items from purchased loot boxes, and other major publishers have agreed to do so no later than the end of 2020. Together, these publishers include Activision Blizzard, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, Bethesda, Bungie, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Wizards of the Coast. Many other ESA members are considering a disclosure. The disclosure will apply to all new games and updates to games that add such in-game purchases and will be presented in a manner that is understandable and easily accessed.

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